Letter to the editor: With planning, Common Core a chance to excel

The Common Core issues as I see them are the implementation of it, which requires teacher training workshops to help distinguish between standards , assessment, and curriculum. The language in which they are written can be very academic and confusing.

The Common Core controversy is in using it as a political hot potato which doesn't help and there is no federal coercion as the radical tea party contends.

Vermillion Parish is correct to screen it for content. Most teachers are trained in pedagogy, the science of teaching, but not necessarily as developers of curriculum.

A creation of teacher cohort teams to teach peers would be a great way toward helping establish everyone on the same page. Baton Rouge school board has hired the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Learning to come in for four years to coach teachers how to teach the new standards.

The Common Core can raise our kids' education levels. We should have it in Lafayette parish. I don't believe we should pull out of Common Core. We should view it as challenge to excel.

Dwight Francis David

Youngsville

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Letter to the editor: With planning, Common Core a chance to excel

The Common Core issues as I see them are the implementation of it, which requires teacher training workshops to help distinguish between standards , assessment, and curriculum. The language in which